St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-26
A PARAD0XICAL PAIR.
While Small Continually Goes About the
Country With Jones There is Moth
ing Small About Jones.
The Two Bvangelists Continue to Enter
tain and Bdify the Curious and
Serious Populace Of Minneapolis.
A Diminished Attendance at The
Meetings as Compared With the
sunday Crowds.
A Comprehensive Abstract of Sam
Jones' Sermon, Which is in the
Usual Vein.

The people crowded to see the Georgia
EvangeiSts Sunday, and, the curious ones
having satisfied themselves as to the ap-
pearance and ways of the two Sans, re-
manned away yesterday. thus giving plenty
of room for the people who are Interested
i'll the meetings. Yesterday afternoon Sam
Small preached to an audience that numbered
over q thousand, and last night over two
thousand people listened to Sam Jones.
Owing to the lateness of the hour it was
impossible TO publish verbatim report OF
the sermon. but the following is full alb
Stract of the principal points:
hope We have come tonight in the spirit
of PRAYER l know God told the truth when
he said: According 10 your faith so be 1t
unto you" He has told it to your face eN-
ceedngly abundantly above all we can ask.
He expects us to believe all that we can be-
lieve he can do. Let us look TO the hills
whence cometh our help. Let your trust be
not in any man; not what any man can do.
But let your trust be in the God that rules
the universe Amen. Let your trust be IN
the Blood that is the blood to clean mans
guilt. Let your trust be in the Holy Ghost.
Let your trust be in God. and in his promises.
Let every breath be prayer. Oh, God, rain
upon US in mighty showers thy blessing
and thy grace. This is not moral side
snow 1nlS no IHOTdl broluer, Heut
NE. This is an earnest, conSecrated, oeVout
effort 10 do good TO our fellow men. Let us
look At 1t in that way. Whatever there may
be odd singular about it, l will say this
much to you, l never try TO be any one Dut
myself. When God called me to preach He
calInl ne to preach. and He didn't call me to
pre- "a ke somebody else, or He didn't call
me To so like somebody else. L have seen
college made men, self made men; but / am
neither collegiate nor self made. God made
me from my head to my heels, just like you
see me. and | never tried TO interfere with
His job, not particle. Laughter. Now
give US your prayers, and pray earnestly,
that God may bless His word and that God
may follow up His word and that
GREAT RESULTS NAY COME
from tins meeting. 1t is the results we need.
Let US look into this thing. We want Chris
tian people here to do better, live better than
you ever did before, IN this way, that hun
dreds and thousands of sinners may turn
their hearts to God and make good husbands
and good fathers and good citizens and good
members of the church the balance of their
lives in this world. Now this the point to
which we look and for which we pray God to
help you TO put yourself in line with the
means which we use to make men better
happier and wiser 1 believe will take as
text for this occasion, these words by st.
John: IF we confess our sins He has faith
% forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all
lnrighteousuesS." Now. brother, this is the
simple essence of Jesus Christ. This is the
whole gospel, in less than three lines, Of the
blessed book. l mean the whole of the
gospel on the human side of the gospel.
There Is a human side to the gospel
and there is divine side to the gospel, which
5 as true as there is q human side to farming
and a divine SIDE to farming. Now, the
divine side Of farming is the rain and sun
shine, and the human side of farming is the
blowing and sowing and reaping. There is
many a lazy old farmer in this country who
Honld like to swap seats with God, if God
would let him do the raining and shining and
2ave God come down here and do his plowing
and reaping; and there is many an old lazy
Methodist and Baptist in this country that
would like to do the blessing and give grace
md let God come down here and pay their
debts. l say there is a great deal of that in
he world. God help us to take our side of
he gospel, and live up to it like true men
ought to do it. Cries amen, amen. And it
something God can do for you and me-
You need not expect God to come down here
and pay your debts for yoI; that is your job,
and the sooner you do it the better. say il
s my business to look on the human side of
:he gospel and meet the conditions of the
promises of God. l am satisfied that one
difficulty with the pulpit OF America, and
maybe of the whole world to-day, is that they
are everlastingly preaching on the divine side
Of the gospel. They are telling US what God
aid and what God can do, and what Christ
done. and all that sort of thing. L say the
divine side of the gospel is Gods side. There
a human side and the more we preachers
and the more members of the church stay
On our own side and live up to it aud do our
part in this grand scheme of redemption the
better we will come out i'll time and the better
we will be in eternity. Cries amen
Now,we have got the divine side of the gospel
tonight straight out from the shoulder, if
We confess our sins; that's our part. If
there is any doctrine taught clearly and un-
nf O6 iS htc hot
God himself is utterly powerless to forgive
sin until humanity confeSses its sins and re-
pents of its sins. 1t is impossible with God
and it is impossible with man. Until that old
sinner out there repents he don't want to be
forgiven. And how can God pardon a man
that don't want to be pardoned? Now re-
oentance is one of the doctrines of the scrip
lures; repentance to man who wants to
get to heaven, who wants to Shun hell; re-
pentance to a man who wants to develop a
rue Christian character; repentance to a
man on his way from death and sin to glory
and God is JUST exactly what the alphabet is
to who wants to attain and enjoy the
highest eminence of learning and philosophy.
Now the first thing 1 ever did in a literary
way was to stand by my mothers knee and
have her
TEACH NE THE ALPHABET.
If we confess our sins. Now, brother.
some people think if they can Just snub and
cry around the Lord a little. that is all that is
necessary. l have got boy, and he is 81
years old, and he comes home drunk every
ht, and he'll just sit down and cry and
says: Papa, L am so sorry, papa-just
listen to me cry, am sorry And comes
home the next night and cries, and snubs. and
cries, and finally said: "Son, you've got to
quit snubbing and crying quit getting
drunk; L can't stand them BOTH Next day
that boy comes home cool and sober face
erect. Father, give me your hand. I've drank
my last drop done my last wrong thing -
and shall do just like you want me till you
die. Well father, said son, I am mighty
glad to hear it. l have 100000 in the bank
waiting for you and now son. Won need not
snub and cry one bit. Now you needn't come
snuf1ng and crying around the good lord
Until you quit your snufing and crying, YOU
amt worthy and after you quit. .snuing an d
crying amt necessary. Repentance don't
mean feeling. Let me draw picture. A
man sitting up with his ak against a
big tree. Friend, l said, you look cold Yes
What are you going to do. l am going to cut
down this tree. Well why don't you. 81 am
waiting to sweat Well, 60 to work and cut
1t down and you'll sweat, and he says, no.
amt going to cut lick until 1 sweat, and he
sIts there and freezes to death. There you
set and say if just had feeling, perspiration,
Id do 1t, and God says if you'd get up and do
what tell you to do, yoti feel with all your
powers. II men didn't have any more sense
in other things than in religion, they wouldn't
know how to take care of themselves
My little Bob, when years old, had more
religious sense than l had at &c. l was seek
ing religion for whole week. My little Bob
was then or nearly years old, and when I
walked into the. house / said to nv wife.
where's the children? Oh, they're over listen
ing to Brother Smith preach: the children
are all very much interested in his preaching:
they love him very much. I sit there, and
directly little Bob ran in ahead. When he
came in
TOOK HIM UP AND KISSED HIM.
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